09/18/2019
During its 2019 session, Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington State Legislature took decisive and badly needed action to address the state’s behavioral health crisis. As part of this initiative, UW...
09/27/2018
Kathleen Gilligan said her 14-year-old son wrestled with calling the suicide hotline right before he killed himself with a gun.
While he never did call, he may have felt more comfortable going online...
07/26/2018
Health promotion interventions in public housing communities have the potential to reduce obesity among residents, a new study shows.
The one-year study looked at the diets and physical activity of...
01/19/2018
Dr. Barak Gaster, an internist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, had spent three years working with specialists in geriatrics, neurology, palliative care and psychiatry to come up...
12/21/2017
Type: MediaAMP
If you are feeling isolated over the holidays, or if you're surrounded by people, here are tips for emotional stability from Dror-Ben Zeev, a UW Medicine professor of psychiatry and behavioral...
Dr. Gabor Maté, the renowned author on addictions, last week told more than 100 UW health-sciences students that the educational framework they are being taught is woefully inadequate because it...
For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge.
But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables are now...
Timothy Thornton is using biostatistics to help identify genetic risk factors of the Hispanic population, which is much more diverse than the typically studied European populations.
Thornton, a UW...
[10/1: The headline has been clarified. The reference to Dr. Joseph Goldstein's academic affiliation has been clarified.]
At age 91, Arno Motulsky, UW professor emeritus of medicine and genome...